Where's Kaplan? The German Police Need Your Help...

It seems that 100 German officials were not enough to keep track of the ringleader of a notorious Cologne-based Moslem extremist organization. Metin Kaplan, also known as the "Caliph of Cologne" apparently "disappeared" under the noses of his many observers this past Wednesday after being released on probation following a 3 year sentence for inciting violence and calling on his followers to murder a rival cleric.

Where's Kaplan? Now you see him...now you don't...

Kaplan's disappearance set of a firestorm of criticism and unleashed a Europe-wide manhunt. The German authorities, true to the form of hamstrung bureaucrats, pointed fingers at each other and refused to accept responsibility for the national embarrassment. Apparently there were too many "legal restrictions" and "exits" in Kaplan's apartment building for the army of German police assigned to watch the Caliph to keep proper track of him. On Thursday, a German court decided that Kaplan, who was to be deported to Turkey (where he is a wanted man) could not be forced out of the country for another 2 months.

Kaplan Now Back Home

To the great relief of the Cologne Police, Kaplan has now returned home of his own free will. The 51 year-old cleric, in poor health and suffering from prostate cancer was apparently not prepared to go underground for the longer-term. Nonetheless the Caliph's hiatus has shown that the German police need to brush up on their skills a bit. Maybe a training session at Guantanamo Bay would do them some good...

The entire episode demonstrates the inadequacies of Germany's legal system in the fight against terrorism. Germany's courts were not able to convict two participants in the conspiracy leading up to 9/11…Now a known Islamic fundamentalist preacher with no German passport cannot even be deported back to Turkey. BTW: Kaplan is accused of receiving 150,000 Euros welfare money under false pretenses. (No wonder he decided to come back! Why live in a cave when life in Germany is this good!)

Germany’s domestic security is deeply flawed. It allows known criminals to go unpunished for years. Deportation of “asylum-seeking” felons to their home countries can be stalled in German courts almost indefinitely. Germany's welfare state generously finances the study of Islamic fundamentalists at universities.

This all doesn't keep German politicians and German media from crying wolf over each and every alleged digression from legal standards in the US hunt for terrorists. It would probably require a major terrorist attack on German soil to change the high-brow attitudes of the German elites.

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That's why Germany desparately needs a comprehensive immigration law so that immigrants can be better regulated and integrated. Unfortunately, certain political parties seem to more interested in blocking the proposal to score political points than in actually improving the situation.

this whole kaplan situation is just pathetic. several bureaucracies blocking each other, incompetence and political correctness lead to this catastrophe.
germany needs security advisors stationed here...

The one single party blocking a new immigration law (and better security measures) are the so called "greens"! This is a party of leftist elitists, the 10% socially secured upper bureaucrats and teachers, late 68ers that live in a multikulti fantasy world, in a leftist La La Land! This leftist elite apparently hate their fellow germans, as the left elite hates their fellow countrymen in other countries. And don't forget: As soon as they can, 80% of all the 3rd world immigrants vote for red-"green"! This is the way to get the "strukturelle Mehrheit" ("structural majority"), as Joseph "Joschka" Fischer puts it - after all, the left already has the "kulturelle Mehrheit", don't they?

The one good thing that arises from this leftist Wahnsinn is the decline of the SPD. Hopefully they fall under 25% in the next elections, and maybe they'll get their head out of their xxx!

I hope that CDU/CSU impose the hardest and most restrictive immigration laws as soon as they can! We have to end this multikulti nightmare - here in germany, in europe and in the whole western civilisation!